It has had its memories. But, whenever I’m asked if I had any fond memories from my childhood, I leap to teenager years and high school. Because they were infinitely better.

My middle school years was filled with tons of humiliation, tons of setbacks, tons of embarrassing moments and nothing about it I’ve ever looked back on and was proud about. I was so hateful of my middle school years, I shredded all of my report cards. Not that they’d mean anything, but they reflected upon things about myself then and where everything was at the time. Sure I was a kid who did kid things, but I wasn’t considered a normal kid and I didn’t get to live a normal kid life.

Fucking lightbulbs have wi-fi in them. Lightbulbs.

Light. Bulbs. What could one fucking need wi-fi for, in lightbulbs? I know because I stock this shit.

“If you put money in a vending machine and got two items instead of one, would you put additional money in for the second item?”

I’ve done this twice in a row. First off, it is not my problem how the person stocking the vending machine puts two pieces of product together to make it happen. I’m not in their shoes, it’s not my job, therefore not my problem. Anybody who pays twice is a fool in that situation.

Department of Eduduhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Screw your rules

Elon Musk Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Two in One, counts as one) Sundar Pichai

If anyone ever tried doing that to me, I would just ruin their video. I would be like “hey yeah, this guy is actually a pedophile” or something then just ruin it. I will not be someone’s object to make money from in that sense. Not unless I’m getting paid.

I would rather be doing a job I don’t like because I know I’m not going to fall in love with it enough to make it my life, than to turn something I’ve fallen in love in doing and making it a job I’ll eventually grow to hate because it is seen as a job.

Oh joy it is probably either:

A dumb bot trying to engage in an artificial but going-no-where discussion

An asshole user

Maybe a mod telling me how wrong I am

Very little times has anyone ever messaged me for actual reasons.

There had been a couple times where I’d be shopping and Wal-Mart’s alert system at the door couldn’t catch the smaller items. Like, they’re honest mistakes too, not intentional. I would make it out to my vehicle, getting the bags in, until I find one object that went by undetected. Thought about just playing it as a mistake and not paying for it.

Problem was, even if I did that, eventually I’d be confronted about it. I work for the company, they know me, they sure as hell probably seen me on camera throwing in that small object at somepoint and will use that. Just because the guy at the booth by the doors isn’t saying or doing anything or the store isn’t getting a hunch, doesn’t mean they aren’t thinking it.

Anytime this has happened though, I have walked back in and paid for that thing. But sometimes even when I know I scanned everything and paid for them, faulty alarms go off anyways so it’s like they’re bipolar.

People are already manipulating historical figures in what they say, to make them aligned with whatever ideals and beliefs one has politically in modern times.

Once AI generation is advanced enough to actually manipulate video from historical periods, people are going to do that too. They’ll probably try making Hitler seem friendlier.

Whatever baffling bullshit scheme people have.

Politics:

• Democrats take back House, Republicans barely cling to Senate.
• Donald Trump dies at somepoint
• Republicans start seeing losses in other fields of political power, but rural counties will still place faith in them.
• Vladimir Putin starts considering nuclear weapons as a last resort to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
• China starts making moves to Taiwan

Celebrity Deaths:

• Rob Halford passes away
• Keith Richards passes away

Sports:

• Jacksonville Jaguars gets their first Super Bowl
• Oklahoma City Thunder are NBA Finals Champions
• Either Seattle Mariners or Toronto Blue Jays finally get the job done for a World Series

If you’re looking for support, that’s breaking Rule 3.

And no, it’s not for “no reason”

This is not Reddit. This is not AITA which Reddit used to be plagued by and people over there treated every subreddit as. This question offers nothing open-ended. This user is just looking for validation and therefore breaks Rule 3.

Cry me a river. Rules exist for a reason. Learn to read or shove off.

First off, this is not Reddit, so stop trying to turn it into one with these kinds of posts.

Secondly, I reported your post for violating Rule 3 which seems to be the norm I guess. Because you’re looking for support.

Next time know where you are and read the rules.

Heres to 12 Rent payments! Heres to 12 Car Payments! Heres to 12 Loan Payments!

Not really. I like fireworks. The only problem is, people firing them off in places where they would otherwise get penalized for. Like we’re not allowed to have fireworks/sparklers of any kind on the apartment premises. Yet that didn’t seem to stop a few idiots who fire them off thinking they’re living in homes and the cars that could get hit or be set on fire should things go wrong, exist.

“New year, same fascist regime in place, I’m going back to sleep”

Repetitive posts would triple. Karma-farming would be prominent. Geopolitical slapfights between Americans and International users. No good moderator/admin coverage.

Nothing really good, I think.

Yeah but you’ve only presented one example. There’s others that are likely not operating like that. Soooo shrugs

I don’t bother asking them anything.

I’m immediately berating them because I know that they’ve chosen to do this, nobody has put a gun to their head and forced them to do this. They all could collectively stop at anytime and overrun their bosses, they just don’t. So right out of the gate, I’m calling them out for what I know they are. I haven’t gotten a lot of scam calls in quite a while, come to think of it.

Hold on, yes we do want every community to exist on lemmy and the fediverse.

If all that people see are memes, technology, games, asking questions, politics and news all of the time that’s available. They won’t help grow the fediverse. The purpose of the fediverse is to offer people platforms to get them off the shit-world that centralized social media has become.

So if we have nothing else to offer them but those things, of course the fediverse won’t grow.

If you’re on your own, you must know a level of self-repair and maintenance. Especially if you somehow become a home-owner, you’re going to need to know some things or you’re going to be spending an lot on specialists who could overcharge you.

You have to have some passions, everyone does. If you know what they are and wish to excel or make careers out of them, then go try college to do so.